{"id":1473,"date":"2010-04-18T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2010-04-19T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:59:58","slug":"excellent-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/excellent-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent day"},"content":{"rendered":"

And it most certainly was! We had wall-to-wall non-stop sunshine all day today with a little bit of Icelandic volcanic ash thrown in for good measure and<\/em> I also managed several more big steps towards getting MYRO completed.<\/p>\n

It was early-to-bed and early-to-rise for me because I wanted to get down to the airfield as early as possible to take advantage of the gorgeous weather forecast. So I was up before 7.00am and out early to finish removing MYRO’s old registration letters from the fin. After all my faffing around yesterday I managed it surprisingly quickly and ended up by giving the fin a wash and applying the new letters. They are a bit bigger than the old ones but they really do sharpen up the image by quite a lot!<\/p>\n

Then I had to load everything into (and onto) the car for transportation to Linton. I press-ganged a passing neighbour into helping me tie the horizontal stabiliser directly onto the roof of my car supported by foam rubber pads and with the wing struts, rudder fin, all the necessary nuts, bolts, rigging pins, tools etc that I needed all loaded inside, I was able to shift everything in one load. The following two pics show that it looked a little bit weird but the arrangement worked perfectly and I made the journey to Linton without incident.<\/p>\n

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I took a packed lunch and a cold drink with me and I decided to eat my lunch before my hands got too dirty. Then I got started with a vengeance. I can hardly remember a day when everything seemed to go so easily and so well. I want to take my time now that large-scale assembly and rigging is involved because safety is all about attention to detail. So I kept consulting the parts list and assembly diagrams to make sure that I assembled things in the correct order and as a result, things went together quite quickly and very smoothly. At one point I found that whoever had removed MYRO’s tail fin had lost one of the rudder pivot bushes and that could have meant stopping at that point until I’d obtained a replacement. But luckily, I’d ordered two new replacement aileron brackets which each came with new bushes and I had the idea of using one from an old bracket as they appeared to be identical. And so they were and it worked perfectly. What a bit of luck!<\/p>\n

I got the horizontal stabiliser on and connected the elevator for the first time since I disconnected it when I got MYRO way back last June. It was a very nice feeling I can tell you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I needed a hand to connect the elevator trim cables because they seemed rather tight. John was there this afternoon and I compared the tension of MYRO’s trim cables with those on his AX3 and sure enough, his were a lot less taught. Robert helped me to connect MYRO’s and after they’d been connected for an hour or two, they did appear to slacken off a little so I think they will be OK. They must have been the same before because there’s nothing for them to snag on inside the fuselage and there was never any problem that I’m aware of.<\/p>\n

Then it was time to fit the rudder. It went on surprisingly easily and this was the first time it had been attached to MYRO’s fuselage since August 2008. How satisfying – another major milestone – and when I’d finished connecting the rudder cables, it meant that two of MYRO’s three primary controls were connected. Only the ailerons to go now \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

With the rudder on it was time to finish up and push MYRO back into Paul’s hangar which I’m very grateful for while the wings are still off, with all this volcanic ash debris in the air and now dropping down, as we could see on our cars. And not before time for me too, because what with the early start, by this time at the end of the afternoon, I was feeling pretty tired. But it was well worth it as the following pics show.<\/p>\n

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So this now only leaves the wings to go on. John mentioned that compared to today’s jobs, putting the wings back on is a doddle and I can well believe him. I replaced one aileron bracket today when I pinched the bush off the old one so there’s just the other one to do. The other fixings are then nearly all clevis pins with safety rings which only take a few moments to insert, so with a helper it shouldn’t take too long at all to get the wings back on and the ailerons reconnected. And that will more or less be it! <\/p>\n

So that’s what’s planned for next weekend. In the meantime I’ll check what’s left of the last batch of nuts and bolts that I ordered to make sure that I didn’t miss anything or have used a new one to replace an old component that I originally hadn’t planned for. After all, I don’t want to let any little silly hiccups like that bring things to a halt just as I’m about to finish the job, do I \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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